For an explanation of what's happening here, please visit THIS BLOG POST . If you choose to participate, make sure you sign up to join the community so you can share your work with us (not a requirement, of course, but that's the fun of it!). Prompt Rules: Using the above image, write something. 250 words shall be your limit and the limit of your words shall be 250. Any style. Any Genre. No smashing the stories. We are not here to crush each other. We are here to help each other fly as best we can. That includes your own story. We are all learning and getting better. This is part of it. Please note that, if you want to share your work with us and read others' submissions, it would need to be done so on the community discord or Facebook group (see blog post mentioned above). Jimmie's comments on that are as follows: Post your story on your own web place then post the link here so we may ooh and aah over it with great appreciation. If you don't have your own web pl
Andy Crawford Photography I have lived in Nashville since I was 5 years old. Prior to that, I was an Air Force brat who lived in a new city and state every year, and in 1991, my parents decided to leave the Air Force and settle down in Nashville. The rest is history. Now, I did spend some time living in New York City and South Korea in my adulthood, but Nashville always pulled me back into its orbit, especially when the city started to blow up. Around 10-15 years ago, Nashville began making news. There'd always been a slight hum because of country music and its direct connection to the music industry in Los Angeles, but there were other factors in Nashville's booming growth at play like the healthcare industry, financial incentives for founding a start-up in the city, and further incentives for larger businesses (like Amazon, Google, etc.) building assets within city limits. Since around 2005, Nashville has seen Amazon and Google build here, new start-ups like SmileDirectClub